The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-11
CLEVELAND AT ST. PAUL.
a SMALL CROWD BIDS THEM GOD
SPEED AT MADISON.

and Twenty Minutes at Lacrosse
The Welcome to st. Paul-Reviewing
a Big Parade - Ladies Honor Mrs.
Cleveland.
MADISON, WIS, Oct 1O-The Presidents
special train left for St Paul at 8 o'clock
this morning. There were a few hundred
people at the station to bid the city's guests
God-speed, but there was no organized
demonstration of any kind The skies were
bright, but the temperature was cold and
the steam heaters of the train were in full
blast.
ON THE ROAD.
LACROSSE, WIS. Oct. 1O-The Presi-
dents special train reached here at o'clock
this afternoon after a stop of five minutes
at Portage and four minutes at New Lis
bon. At each of these places great crowds
were assembled and everybody who could
do so shook hands with the President. who
stood with Mrs. Cleveland on the rear plat
form. At New Lisbon an artillery salute
was fired and the w. p. Mitchell Grand
Army Post, which was in attendance with
its flags flying, gave the President three
rouslng cheers as the train pulled out.
On arriving at Lacrosse a salute of
twenty-one guns was fired as the train en-
tered the station. A throng of people num-
bering 5000 or 5000 were awaiting the ar
rival of the train, and loudly cheered the
visitors as they alighted and crossed the
platform to their carriage. The steam
whistles of the saw mills and steamboats, on
the Mississippi river screamed their loudest
The station and principal buildings of the
city were tastefully decorated with bunting
The party was escorted through the princi-
pal streets by the Governors Guards. The
Mayor and President of the Board of Trade
accompanied the President in his carriage
The entire population, with great number
from distance, were on the streets. The
train stopped twenty minutes.
A SAFE ARRIVAL AT ST. PAUL.
ST. PAUL, MINI, Oct. 10.-The special
train carrying President and Mrs. Cleve-
land, the Postmaster General and his wife,
and the gentlemen composing the party
which left Washington with the President,
reached st. Paul exactly on time at $50
o'clock this evening, having left Madison,
Wis, at 9 O'Clock this morning The ride
from Madison was perhaps the most enjoy
able days journey the party has experienced
since its departure from Washington. All
had been thoroughly rested during the stay
at Madison and were in the best of health
and spirits. The weather for the greater
part of the day was as fine
as if ordered on purpose, and the region
through which the travellers passed is one of
the pleasantest of the Northwest. The peo-
pie along the line and at the small stations
were much more demonstrative than those
of the regions passed through earlier in the
trip. They gathered at many points in
little knots OF from 80 to 800 or 400 on the
platforms, swung their hats and hand
kerchiefs, but with few exceptions made
no attempts at decoration, and seemed
intent only upon satisfying their desire to
see the President, in which purpose none
were disappointed. At Lacrosse, where
the train tarried twenty minutes, there was
little gem of demonstration which was
highly praised by it's recipients. Though
there were 10000 people at the station, with
twice as many more lining the streets of
the town, and though their enthusiasm was
of the hveliest kind, there was neither
crowding nor haste.
A CARPETED PATHWAY.
Rich carpets covered the platform for a
hundred feet between the train and the car
riage and a wide avenue into which none
but the receiving delegation penetrated was
LETT open for the visitors. The bells of the
town rang merry peals, and the steam
whistles of mills and steamboats, screeched
their widest, but from the moment Mayor
Austin took the Presidents hand and well
coined him to that city, and when he ex-
pressed wish that he might have made a
longer stop the utmost order prevailed
At Portage, New Lisbon, Sparta and
Lake City, where five minute stops were
made, handshaking took place of the non
familiar character, yet with Difference.
The look of excitement, almost as intense as
that of men in battle, was missing. The
people jostled and crowded, but they
laughed as they did SO. The interview was
with them not so evidently of business as
of pleasure. Not tenth of those who
gathered had chance to shake the hand of
the President, but their cheers as the train
pulled away were none the less hearty The
special schedule time of the train to-day
was considerably faster than any hereto
fore.
HOW THE DAY DAWNED.
Flying clouds and frosty air ushered in
the day for which st. Paul has been pre-
pairing with eager expectation for a month
past Toward the middle of the afternoon
the sun came out and the weather moderated
somewhat, but it is still decidedly bracing
The crowd is unparalleled in the city's his
tory, and the oldest inhabitant recalls the
Willard expedition, Garfield obsequies and
winter carnivals in vain to remember its
like.
With all the regular trains packed,
twenty specials and the contingent that
came yesterday a conservative estimate
places the number of strangers in the city
at $4,000, which is added to the resident
population of thrice that number. Pedes-
trianism was attended with difficulties. Ex-
cellent police arrangements prevented any
delay of the Presidents movements A
large contingent gathered at the union
depot long before 80 o'clock, and u few
minutes before that hour caI riages contain
ing the reception committee drove up.
Among them were Col. Kerr, Aldermen Cul-
len, Dowlan, Sanborn, Hamel and Bryant,
and Con gressrnen Rice and Kelly. Passing
through the throng of people the reception
platform, where passage way was pre-
served up the centre. The band of the
Twenty-fifth Infantry was stationed on the
roof of the station arcade, and commenced
playing. As Mrs Cleveland came out three
little girls stepped forward, and presented
her with three lovely bouquets Of pink
roses. The President, Col. lamont and Col
Kerr got in the first carriage, Mrs. Cleve-
land and Congressman Rice in the second,
and the committee and press representatives
in the remaining vehicles.
AN OVATION.
The Presidents carriage was drawn by
four white horses The First Battery, NJ
N. g., stationed near by, began the Presi-
Dental salute as tho party emerged from
the station, and the cheering was almost
continuous. The procession moved up Third
to jackson street. Here the streets were
literally iammed with the multitude of